TY  - BOOK
AU  - Park,John Edgar
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Understanding 3D Animation Using Maya
SN  - 9780387269047
AV  - T385 
U1  - 006.6 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York
KW  - Computer science
KW  - Computer graphics
KW  - Computer vision
KW  - Optical pattern recognition
KW  - Computer Science
KW  - Computer Graphics
KW  - Image Processing and Computer Vision
KW  - Pattern Recognition
N1  - Essential Skills -- Refinements -- Intermediate Skills -- Adding Character -- Wiring Things Up -- Bringing It All Together
N2  - Many animators and designers would like to supplement their Maya learning with a less-technical, more helpful book. This self-study manual is both a general guide for understanding 3-D computer graphics and a specific guide for learning the fundamentals of Maya: workspace, modeling, animation, shading, lighting, and rendering. Understanding 3-D Animation Using Maya covers these fundamentals in each chapter so that readers gain increasingly detailed knowledge. After an initial 'concepts' section launches each chapter, hands-on tutorials are provided, as well as a chapter project that progressively adds newly learned material and culminates in the final animated short. This is the first book on Maya that teaches the subject using a sensible, proven methodology for both novices and intermediate users. Topics and features: - Proven method that emphasizes preliminaries to every chapter - Integrates the "why" concepts of 3-D simultaneously with the "how-to" techniques - Skills reinforced with tutorials and chapter projects - Real-world experience distilled into helpful hints and step-by-step guides for common tasks
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b138279
ER  -